The data comes from a Czech media database called Newton Media Search and involves all major Czech newspapers for the period from 4th June 2013 to 4th June 2014. Actors are: Jana Nagyov<U+00E1>, Petr Ne<U+010D>as <U+2013> former prime minister and his office chief and love affair. Ivan Fuksa, Petr Tlucho<U+0159>, Marek <U+0160>najdr <U+2013> deputies of ODS (conservative governing party at that time) Ondrej P<U+00E1>len<U+00ED>k, Roman Bo<U+010D>ek, Jan Poh<U+016F>nek, Milan Kovanda, Lubom<U+00ED>r Poul, Libor Gryg<U+00E1>rek <U+2013> high government officials and espionage agents Ivo Rittig, Roman Janou<U+0161>ek, V<U+00E1>clav Ryba, Tom<U+00E1><U+0161> Hrdli<U+010D>ka, Ji<U+0159><U+00ED> Toman <U+2013> eminences gris, "godfathers" DATA FORMATS: UCINET, .csv 1-mode matrix 16 x 16 person by person. The ties are co-appearances <U+2013> every time an actor was mentioned in one article together with any other actor, it is considered to be a tie. Ties are valued on am 11 point scale, where 10 is the strongest tie (Nagyova <U+2013> Necas). All other ties were transformed by dividing the total number of co-appearances between the two actors by the value of the strongest tie, which gave the percent of the maximal tie. This percentage was then assigned an integer value from range 0 - 9 according to which tenth of percents this particular value falls into. Example: The Fuksa - Nagyova tie reaching 50% of the strongest tie value was assigned a value of 5. The Nagyova - Ryba tie reaching 3% of the max value was assigned zero etc.
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